WordPress is the most widely used blog platform on the web today. With its easy-to-use and open-source nature, it is no surprise that 76.5 billion blogs (over 18% of the Alexa “top 1 million” websites) run on this platform. Although it began as merely a blogging tool, WordPress powers everything from churches to CNN and CBS New York. WordPress is both easy-to-learn and extremely powerful.

So What Exactly is WordPress?

WordPress is a web-based, open source content management system (or CMS). It is coded in PHP and Javascript and uses a mySQL database. In plain english, it is the probably the most popular website building tool available.

Three reasons for its popularity are

1. It’s free and open-source

2. It is powerful but also

3. Easy to learn.

What’s the difference between WordPress.org and WordPress.com?

The one major difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org is who’s actually hosting your website.With WordPress.org, YOU host your own blog or website. WordPress.org is where you’ll find the free WordPress software that you can download and install on your own web server.